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KICKOFF
Posted by AGL in
7 Jun 2008 — 4:47am
7 Jun 2008 — 4:47am
KICKOFF
Now is for real. No more 'friendlies' where points are not at stake and may bore the audience. What do you think or bet will survive and get to the finals?
Feel free to add your bet or hopes. Just add a related or unrelated font if you will.
As I write this it is 4 hours and 12 minutes to the kick off...
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7 Jun 2008 — 6:53am
I know soccer/football is thrilling to a lot of folks, but I'm not sure I understand how this relates to typography.
7 Jun 2008 — 10:56am
Helvetica : Swiss - Akzidenz-Grotesk : Germany - Peignot : France. Elzevir : Dutch.
I think is fun :-)
8 Jun 2008 — 4:44am
I’m not sure I understand how this relates to typography.
Me neither, but the same goes for top 10 albums and other music – two of the most popular recent threads, by the way. Oh well!
8 Jun 2008 — 9:29am
>I’m not sure I understand how this relates to typography.
>Me neither, but the same goes for top 10 albums and other music
Surely the link between music and typography is Apple? Apple invented both digital typography and digital music.
8 Jun 2008 — 12:09pm
So far the only things I've really paid attention to has been type treatment in shirts (font/gemena/capitals) and team logos (the Swiss team had a new one). My husband commented on the extended use of gemena from names in shirts to MacDonalds' "i'm loving it" on the sideboard ads.
8 Jun 2008 — 12:58pm
"I’m not sure I understand how this relates to typography."
Maybe it is that people get a big kick out of both of them or just that they are having a ball while talking type? Either way, it's hands off for the non-footballers here and a heads-up to those willing to toe the line :-)
ChrisL
9 Jun 2008 — 7:13am
Well, mixing football / soccer to typography is easy. I just received my idle player 36"x44" poster to glue on the wall :-)
Christian Dez Piero
9 Jun 2008 — 8:14am
André,
LOL!!! That is fabulous! My kids will get a big kick out of it!
ChrisL
9 Jun 2008 — 3:17pm
I’m not sure I understand how this relates to typography.
The great ideal of dutch football has always been to play effective but not without playing beautiful as well.
Tonight they beat the current world champion Italy 3:0.
They could make it to the final (against Germany maybe?).
9 Jun 2008 — 3:50pm
... The only football shirt I own is a dutch one:
10 Jun 2008 — 12:24am
ORANJE!
10 Jun 2008 — 2:13am
In a final between Germany and Holland, there is no question where my loyalties fall. But watching that game against Italy last night, all I have to say is… damn! God, I hope those Italians get sent home as soon as possible. As for the Dutch football style, if those long passes weren't beautiful, I don't know what is. Good job, Oranje.
10 Jun 2008 — 3:52am
the Italy numbers are kinda cool, typographically
10 Jun 2008 — 5:18am
Yes. Due to painful Nistelrooy's effect. But it also could have been that "Christian Dez Piero" was playing as midfielder...
But wait, there are still more games in this death - group
Chris, I am glad you like the poster. After printed, you have to autograph it :-)
10 Jun 2008 — 5:19am
"the Italy numbers are kinda cool, typographically" - Were they made with Fontstruct?
10 Jun 2008 — 6:10am
"After printed, you have to autograph it :-)"
Be happy to! I guess it would be our secret that I am probably the worst soccer player ever on the face of the earth :-)
ChrisL
10 Jun 2008 — 6:13am
Type and football/soccer; two links to see and read more:
Éric de Berranger's LFP : http://ericdeberranger.free.fr/pages/present/lfp.html
and a linotype article on football shirts : http://www.linotype.com/2710/footbaljerseyfonts.html
10 Jun 2008 — 6:44am
Carefull. One leg of Dez Piero is worth 5 millllin bucks, ensured :-)
10 Jun 2008 — 7:48am
With my very bad knees and poor mobility (and at age 64), I don't think my legs are worth 5 cents let alone $5million :-)
I still hobble around on the tennis court, though. My strokes are still pretty good--if only I could get to the ball!
ChrisL
10 Jun 2008 — 3:53pm
OK. Every team played once now. Best performance so far: Spain!!!
An absolute joy to watch.
10 Jun 2008 — 4:00pm
I'm cheering for Sweden.
10 Jun 2008 — 4:49pm
I'm rooting for the teams who play beautiful soccer, but never win. That would be: Portugal & Netherlands
Living in Little Portugal here in Santa Clara, CA (technically little azores) I fully expect a parade on triumph. That in addition to the normally scheduled monthly parade for Saint Salguém de Algures.
10 Jun 2008 — 5:13pm
My house is cheering for Portugal too.
Randy, I didn't know you were in Santa Clara!
10 Jun 2008 — 5:16pm
I was picking Greece to repeat (I was in Greece for Euro 2004) - sadly it's not looking so good for them this time around.
10 Jun 2008 — 6:15pm
This year is for us...eh eh
Força Portugal!
António
10 Jun 2008 — 6:33pm
Cristiano will be crying for the right reason.
11 Jun 2008 — 2:03am
sii
"Cristiano will be crying for the right reason."
...of joy? ;-)
António
11 Jun 2008 — 3:04am
I'd love to see a Type Design Euro 2008 where representative typefaces from each of the 16 countries battle each other. But due to my lack of knowledge, I'm afraid I can't name a single type design from Romania, Croatia, Turkey, Austria, and Poland...
It would be interesting to compare type design and footballing prowesses of the Euro 2008 participants. Type-wise, my hunch would be that the Netherlands become strong favourites.
11 Jun 2008 — 4:16am
El Niño y Villa
Spain 4 - 0 Russia had a lot of gols, Oléeee! It is going to be exciting to find out if Spain will make it better this time around. For forty something years they have been under achieving on big competitions...
I highlight the awesome performance of Ibrahimović who scored a BIG one against Greece.
I guess that in every café bar in Portugal people were delighted when that ball got in ;-). I say that because the last Euro final, the Greeks took it...
I couldn't find a better picture of Ibrahimović, but this one is fun ;;-)
I am hoping Portugal and Greece met again on a rematch...
11 Jun 2008 — 5:10am
I am hoping Portugal and Greece met again on a rematch...
No chance. Greece won’t survive the first round.
11 Jun 2008 — 5:26am
Yes Jan, I know. Anyway, I and my propensity to impossible ideas ... :-)
11 Jun 2008 — 5:30am
Except for all the Greeks you are probably the only person in the world who wants to see Greece play another game ;-)
It was horrible.
11 Jun 2008 — 5:40am
> Apple invented both digital typography and digital music.
Whaaaa? I would think that Compugraphic or one of its generation invented digital typography. And I really think that digital music existed before the Ipod.
11 Jun 2008 — 6:06am
I thought the Greek coach would eat his bench, with olive oil.
11 Jun 2008 — 6:22am
Spain 4 - 0 Russia had a lot of gols, Oléeee!
You mean Spain 4 - 1 Russia. So that's even more goals. Spain were mighty impressive, but one does feel bad about Russia having to play without Arshavin (suspended for first two matches) and Pogrebnyak (out injured), two of their best players who guided Zenit St. Petersburg to the UEFA Cup title.
Russia have struggled internationally since the former Soviet teams all went their separate ways (with a few exceptions like Lev Yashin, most former Soviet stars were non-Russian), but I thought that for once they had a genuine pool of talent. I guess the only Cyrillic users among the Euro 2008 participants are too young and inexperienced. With Greece struggling as well, it's back to Latin-alphabet dominance in the European Championships.
Pop quiz: when were the two times that a non-Latin-alphabet-using team won the European Championships?
11 Jun 2008 — 6:45am
>I am hoping Portugal and Greece met again on a rematch...
Revenge is a dish best served cold... with olive oil, feta and glass of Mythos beer.
>Pop quiz: when were the two times that a non-Latin-alphabet-using team won the European Championships?
Well, one was the Greeks last time. The other...
11 Jun 2008 — 6:56am
>Pop quiz: when were the two times that a non-Latin-alphabet-using team won the European Championships?
Well, one was the Greeks last time. The other...
... was the Soviet Union 1960.
11 Jun 2008 — 7:07am
I would like to see Spain vs Germany on the final but I'm also keen to see matches between Portugal and Italy and Netherlands and Spain.
!Vamos Furia Roja!
Héctor
11 Jun 2008 — 11:58am
Sii and Jan are of course right... USSR in 1960, Greece in 2004. In 2004, I actually watched Greece defeat France in the semis at a Greek restaurant in Berlin, dining on fabulous Greek food. Boy were the Greeks celebrating.
Revenge is a dish best served cold... with olive oil, feta and glass of Mythos beer.
Hmm... I'm suddenly getting really hungry.
11 Jun 2008 — 12:26pm
Euro 2004 of course coincided with the ICTVC conference in Thessaloniki. Watched the France match in the hotel and then hit the streets with the rest of the city. Was on Santorini for the final, which was fun too, but a little more low-key.
11 Jun 2008 — 1:48pm
The first host is out: Switzerland.
I’m afraid the same is going to happen to the other one tomorrow: Austria.
11 Jun 2008 — 1:57pm
Bruno will be crying in his pint tonight...
http://www.daltonmaag.com/browse2/custom/clients/puma?lang=de&offset=3
11 Jun 2008 — 2:51pm
Can't really talk about football without talking about Brasil :P
Here's our new uniform.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/8900/20082010brasilhometg9.png
And this is my local team and it's 2008 uniform:
http://www.gremio.net/shop/product_detail.aspx?language=0&category_id=16...
And this is the AVALANCHE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKnujGgUMco
11 Jun 2008 — 2:57pm
eh...eh...
The first part is done...We are in the quarter-finals!!!!
António
PS- We dont want revenge...we just love football!!!!
11 Jun 2008 — 3:21pm
Da Man
I Phil more relaxed now. I can imagine the parade maybe still going on. That is good though, can rest important players for the next big one. I say watch Turkey next match.
I guess some people will be missed at their jobs, tomorrow.
Switzerland is out. Turkey would take even on Germany on a do or die match too...
" The first part is done...We are in the quarter-finals!!!! "
11 Jun 2008 — 4:49pm
Loads of Turkish people driving around playing air-horns at the moment, which is fair enough, but would quite like to get to sleep at some point.
12 Jun 2008 — 2:09pm
Dan - "watching that game against Italy last night, all I have to say is… damn! God, I hope those Italians get sent home as soon as possible"
You know what, Italy has lost one game on the first round in many tournaments and always made it to the next level.. you never know, maybe the Ball Gods are roman deities...
" The first host is out: Switzerland "
I thought that too, but hey, still can make it. I never thought Germany would go down against Croacia. Was Croacia who took on Germany in 98?
13 Jun 2008 — 5:05am
Giuoco Calcio
I collected some info on Italy. I could not find stuff in english...
You will find also some calcio science à la catenaccio.
The best find is an italian newspaper cover at the bottom, along some "free" soccer. :-)
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Squadra Azzurra
http://www.figc.it/
Giuoco Calcio
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federazione_Italiana_Gioco_Calcio
Catenaccio
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catenaccio
Schema (calcio)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_%28calcio%29
Modulo (calcio)
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulo_%28calcio%29
Calcio Gratis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFYX0zjMXKw&feature=related
1968 Cover La Gazzetta dello Sport. Or browse for more options
http://www.euro2008.uefa.com/history/index.html
13 Jun 2008 — 5:32am
there is not much things in this world i hate as much as football. being a resident of istanbul, it is almost a torture.
dr
13 Jun 2008 — 6:11am
Was it Croacia who took on Germany in 98?
In 1996 Germany beat the Czechs 2:1 in the final (Euro Cup).
1998 was the World Cup.
We sucked against Croatia.
And Austria isn’t out. Good for us.